It's Friday, but I still don't feel like installing all the dependencies to build the procps package... I believe the smoking gun is on my desk already:
procps-3.2.7-slab.patch (part of the SUSE add-ons to procps) says @@ -603,6 +615,7 @@ } kb_swap_used = kb_swap_total - kb_swap_free; kb_main_used = kb_main_total - kb_main_free; + kb_main_cached += kb_slab_reclaimable + kb_swap_cached + kb_nfs_unstable; } That explains why it's not in RHEL since it is not part of the upstream procps sources. The changelog entry has an innocent description like below. * Thu Nov 17 2011 [email protected] - Change order of parsing /proc/meminfo to make sure that "Slab" and "SwapCached" fields are found (bnc#696351) I don't think this is a wise change, and I'm surprised a distributor would do things like that. I can see that you might want to add swap cache if you need to have a single number, but there's more value in having this consistent in the distributions. Rob On 17 May 2013 12:57, Michael MacIsaac <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex, > > > That is not what I see at my end. > Wait, what? > > You have two RHELs and they agree with my RHEL - the value for "Cached" in > /proc/meminfo is also shown in "free". It's SLES's "free" that seems to > add the "Cached" and "SReclaimable" values (and as Rob points out, > possibly also "SwapCached"). > > "Mike MacIsaac" <mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
